Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

Critics and audiences landed on opposite sides of this one: most reviewers found the monster spectacle undermined by a weak script and numbingly relentless action, while a vocal minority of fans embraced it as gleeful kaiju excess. The central split is whether wall-to-wall creature combat counts as entertainment or exhaustion — and whether any amount of impressive visual scale can compensate for characters who exist only to move the plot between fight sequences.